Reflections on Teju Cole's OPEN CITY
Reflections on Teju Cole's OPEN CITY
Teju Cole's Open City, a feast for both mind and heart. He writes with exquisite discernment about almost everything under the sun.
Open City by Teju Cole – review | Fiction - The Guardian
It's a reversal of the trope of invisibility and it bothers him! Brussels is the literal open city in this novel and by implication NYC is under ...
Teju Cole's novel open and closes in Morning Side Heights, the Manhattan neighborhood on the upper west side that we will be staying at for eight of our ...
Open City–Teju Cole (2011) | Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
The book thus reveals a pervasive substrate of pain under New York's glittering, cultured, and moneyed façade; perhaps in keeping with the ...
In Teju Cole's 'Open City', The Past Is Mostly Empty Space
Open City is an extended meditation on the soul that is trying to heal, as its narrator appears to try to dodge and evade some aspects of his life.
Cole's novel is a beautiful book, an elegant story of a city in four dimensions, and a haunting tale of a man who struggles to find his place in it.
Teju Cole's Open City and the Ultimate Unreliable Narrator
The world opens up in these passages, thrillingly, filled in with copious details of the cosmopolitan and many-layered world of identity, ...
Another theme is that of loneliness, alienation, and connection. Julius is an immigrant, and thus somewhat alienated from the mainstream of ...
Reading Africa — Teju Cole's “Open City” | by The Kalahari Review
Teju Cole's debut novel, “Open City.” This is a book that you can revel in...in both its prose and the feeling it gives you.
Open City by Teju Cole - Triumph Of The Now
The City may be open, but the narrator is not. Nothing touches him. Nothing at all. His prose is academic, is sharp, but Teju Cole has written a ...
The Impersonal Volition of Temporality in Teju Coles' *Open City
In his novel, Open City, Teju Cole conveys temporality–through both its form and its content–as an impersonal, indifferent, ...
The “fugitive notes” of Teju Cole's Open City - Taylor & Francis Online
While Julius, the narrator of Open City (2011), foregrounds walks, intellectual digression, and stories of minor characters, ...
Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Cole returned to the US two decades ago, and is a writer, photographer, and “ ...
Memory-Making in Teju Cole's Open City | Global Modernities
The novel also engages with memories of suffering through urban spaces. Julius' preoccupation with memory sites evokes thoughts about the notion ...
Review: Open City by Teju Cole - ark books
A novel for the bad cosmopolitans of the world · There are many novels about New York, and there are many novels about people trying to make a ...
Book Review - Open City - By Teju Cole - The New York Times
The peripatetic hero of Teju Cole's indelible novel reflects on his adopted New York, the Africa of his youth, today's America and a Europe ...
Open City by Teju Cole – I Want To Be A Part Of It - Writing And So On
Open City is not driven by plot – clearly. Instead it's a book of thoughts and ideas, with its central preoccupation being identity.
Memories Stream By In Subtle, Disturbing 'Open City' | Arts
Similarly, the physical action of wandering takes center stage in Teju Cole's debut novel “Open City.” The book opens with an image of the ...
Teju Cole's Open City - Katina Rogers
I was initially in two minds about the book, though I've come to like it more upon reflection. I love the way the narrator's city walks set the ...
Sunday Book Review - "Open City" by Teju Cole - for those ... - Reddit
The book Open City is the record of a young doctor in New York who does this most days after work. He doesn't go walking for exercise; he puts ...